Button arranger for wringers



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' O. M. QTTE BUTTON ARRANGER FOR WRINGERS Filed Jan. 30, 1922 2- Sheets-Sheet l Flan.-

Patented Sept. 29, 1925.

STATES "TNT QFFICE.

GTI-IO lVI. GTIE, OF TARENTUIVI, EENNSYLVANIA, ASSGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSGNMENTS, TO RAYDEX MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 0F BRACKENBIDGE,

PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

BUTTON ARRANGER FOR WRINGERS.

Application led January 30, 1922. Serial No. 532,757'

To all 'La/0m t may concern.'

Be it known that l, OTHO M. Orrn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Tarentuin, in the county of Allegheny and the State of Pennsylvania, have made a new and useful lnvention in Button Arrangers for lVringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes wringer attachments.

The buttons on clothes when run through wringers as ordinarily constructed are liable to be either torn from the clothes or broken by the pressure rolls of the wringer because of the fact that a large proportion of them are forced to enter the pressure rolls at an improper angle with relation to the line of travel of the clothes through the rolls. I have found that if the buttons on clothes are laid flat before entering the rolls, the tendency to tear them from the clothes or to break them is reduced to a minimum, and an object of this invention is to provide means for automatically adjusting` or arranging the buttons on clothes prior to their entrance between the wringer rolls.

A further object is to provide a combined button adjuster and safety guard for clothes wringers.

These, as well as other objects which will readily appear to those skilled in this particular art, I attain by means of the device described in the specification and illustrated in the 4drawings accompanying and forming part of this application.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view in elevation of a wringer of ordinary construction with an attachment embodying this invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a side sectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary enlarged view showing the attachment employed so that the articles to be wrung may be entered from either side of the wringer.

Figure 4t is a top view partially in section and partially in plan taken on line 4 4 of Figure 3.

The device of this invention is adapted to be applied to any type of wringer construction, either hand or power operated. The

wringer used for illustration in this application consists of end posts o and G slotted to receive bearing` blocks 7 and 8 within which its compression rolls 9 and 10i are journaled. A compression spring 11 of common construction is shown and a follower 12 to said spring is held in adjusted position by means of adjustment screws 155 and lll. The compression rolls are con` nected together by means of gears 15 and 1G and the wringer is adapted to be operated by means of a crank and handle 17. l

To the forward side of each wringer end post 5 and G, a bracket 18 is secured, preferably by means of screws 19. These brackets are preferably formed of wood and each is provided with a semi-circular bear ing groove 20 and a bearing surface 21. A roller 22 having reduced ends 23, forming trunnions, has said trunnions held into bearing grooves 2O by means of a soft rubber belt 241; which passes around the roller 22 and lower compression roll S of the wringer. A roller 25 similar in all respects to roller 22 also has reduced ends forming trunnions which lie in contact with bearing surface 21 and a soft rubber belt 26 extends around this roller and upper compression roll 9 of the wringer. The endless belts 24 and 26 are preferably formed of soft rubber and are of suflicient thickness (preferably three-sii:- teenths of an inch) to furnish the necessary resiliency between the compression rolls in conjunction with the compression spring 11. In other words, these belts or conveyors will preferably be of such thickness that solid compression rolls may be utilized. This will be advantageous if the attachment is to be manufactured and sold as part of a wringer and not merely as an attachment. In such a case the compression rolls may be made of wood suitably treated so as to make the same waterproof or they may be made of a waterproof composition.

Rollers 22 and 25 may likewise be made of wood suitably treated so as to make them waterproof or they may be made of suitable composition.

The angle of wall 21 is preferably such that when the wringer is at rest, there will be little, if any, resistance to upward movement of roller 25. During operation of the wringer, however, belt 26 will tend to pull roller 25 downwardly so that the lower stretch of the upper belt will have a tendency to lie in contact with the upper stretch or run of the lower belt.

It will be noted that the roller 25 lies a substantial distance inside of roller 22 and for this reason there can be no pinching of the hand of the operator between rollers 25 and 22; if the operators hand gets between roller 25 and the upper stretch or run or the lower belt, the belt will yield; roller 25 will also ride up inclined bearing face 2l and no pinching will result.

As the wringer is operated and the coinpression rolls revolve, the adjacent runs of the endless conveyors or belts will move toward the compression rolls from rollers 22 and 25 and carry the clothes or other inaterial toward and through the compression rolls. rIlhe conveyors thus forni yielding means for carrying the material to the coinpiession rolls and they function simultaneously to yieldingly and progressively compact the clothes or other material whereby the buttons on the saine are snapped or otherwise moved into a substantially horizontal plane by the adjacent runs of the belts so that they will pass through the compression rolls without being broken or torn loose.

It is now customary in using power wringers, especially in connection with washing machines, to operate the same first in one and then in the other direction and in Figs. 3 and 4 I have illustrated a modlfication of this invention as applied to a wringer such as a power wringer where it is desired to operate the same in both directions.

In the form shown in Figs. 3 and t, brackets 18 are applied both to the front and back of the wringer end posts and two rollers 22 for the lower belt are employed on opposite sides or' the wringer instead of one. Two upper rollers 25 are employed on opposite sides of the wringer instead of one, as in Figs. l and 2. In this modified or double form, the clothes may be entered from either side, as will-"be apparent.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim is A wringer having in combination, vertically aligned compression rolls, an endless elastic belt passing around the lower of said rolls, a roller around which said belt passes, brackets mounted on said wiinger for supporting said roller in front of said compression roll, an endless elastic belt passing around the upper of said compression rolls, a roller around which said belt passes and inclined bearing faces formed on said brackets for inovably supporting said latter roller above a portion of the lower belt located between its supporting elements.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 25th day of Jan., 1922.

OTHO M. OTTE. 

